Its about time!

You know when you put off something at first because you don't quite have the time to give it the full attention it really needs? But then the longer you put it off the more don ting the task becomes and then you realize that the task it just getting bigger and bigger and you have more and more to do and it is now going to take you 3x's as long. Well that is exactly what has happened here. At first I had no time what so ever to update and then it was that task that I knew that I needed to get to at some point but kept putting it off. Procrastination is my middle name. In fact the only reason why I am doing this right now is because I am putting of preparing my talk for Sunday, yes we were asked to speak on Father's day. Well at least it wasn't Mother's day! Anyway, so here I am almost 6 months later (HOLY COW!!!) with an update. Which I am sure for most of you will be very anticlimactic. So for those of you that I don't talk to on a regular basis let me quickly sum up. Almost immediately after the announcement of Alex closing I received 2 job offers. In fact almost everyone in the kitchen had more than one job offer. We were all soooo lucky that when we closed every single employee had a new job already lined up. I was having a really hard time making my decision and in the end I choose what was best for Jeff and I. I decided to stay at the Wynn and work more as a consultant with helping create new menu's for various outlets (restaurants, cafe, gift shop ect.) places that didn't have a pastry team on staff but still wanted something sweet to sell. I was able to go back to normal working hours and actually see my husband. We have not been on the same schedule since we moved here to Vegas, which will be 5 years this summer. YIKES! (We've gotta get out of here!!!) I am happy with the decision I made but that meant giving up the opportunity to work at Joel Robuchon. Resume and career wise it was the worst decision I could have made but like I said for me and my little family it was the absolute best one I could have ever made.

Lets see here, what else? Oh I turned 32 and I normally love birthdays but this year it was supremely awful! Any and everything that could have gone wrong at work did. I even had to leave the room for a moment and cry. Well the good thing is that next year it will be better, I will see to that!

Steve Wynn got married the same weekend as the royal wedding, which of course I got up at 2:45am to watch the whole thing before I headed to work, that was an extremely long day. Everyone at work thought that I was crazy for doing so but they all of course wanted to know every detail so I filled them in. Anyway SW got married that weekend as well and let me tell you it was a mad house. For weeks we were prepping for the wedding. Every single guest received a mini 3-tiered wedding cake. Oh and did I mention that there were 600 guests?! Ahhh, yes we were icing, piping and decorating until we couldn't see straight and our hands were about to fall off.

Something new, back in February I had vertigo. Well after 2 different doctors, 3 different prescriptions and 2 months later I was still dizzy. They had no idea what to do with me so they sent me off to a specialist. A cat-scan, MRI and another prescription later and I was still dizzy. So as a final result the neurologist ran one last thing, he tipped me upside down and turned my head from side to side. Tada!! Apparently there is a calcium deposit in your ear that helps with your balance and equilibrium. The deposit is supposed to be up high and mine had somehow moved down low, thus the only cure is to be tipped upside down and let gravity take its course. The neurologist said that he could send me to a balance clinic or it could simply be done at home leaning over the side of my bed. Unbelievable! Well guess it only took 3 1/2 months to figure that out.

Back in November I was asked to teach a class on how to make the perfect holiday pie. The class was such a huge success that afterward a couple of ladies came up to me and asked if I would be willing to teaching a smaller group of women in their homes on a monthly basis. And so once a month I've been teaching different techniques. Last month we did meringues. Did you know that there are 3 different types. Each one has a different purpose. We went over and made each and then with the Italian meringue we made my orange blossom buttercream icing. Oh, it is heavenly! I am really enjoying teaching these classes, it may be something to look into in the future.

Lets see what else? Oh, we've had lots of family visit over the last few months. Jeff joked that by the way I was acting you would have thought that Queen was coming to visit. And rightly so, my sisters and sisters in-law came with all of their kids. All at different times luckily, not that I wouldn't have loved for them all to come at once but when visits are spread out I don't feel as far away from everyone and I feel less alone. And since I have no children of my own I get to be the favorite aunt. I was actually able to take time off when my sister's came and I soaked up as much I possible could. I know that it may sound silly to some but for me my favorite thing was every morning when Jeff left for work and I was still in bed my nieces and nephew would come and crawl into bed with me and snuggle. We would lay in bed giggling and talking until our stomachs growled too loudly, forcing us to get up and make breakfast. I loved it, absolutely loved it!This is my youngest sisters' (Brooke) little girls, too cute!

And then my other sisters' (Brynn) two adorable kiddos.

I haven't posted any quilt pictures for quite sometime and seeing that that's what 50 percent of what my blog is supposed to be here are a few:
This is Marisol with her first quilt. Next to her is her brother Omar. Three years ago when my sister and brother in-law decided to adopt them I decided to make a quilt for each so that when they got home they would have something that was their very own, something that they didn't have to share with dozens of other children in the orphanage.


And this is Omar's quilt, I never got one with him holding it. I'll need to fix that next time I go up.

The last of the Alex dessert pictures and their descriptions will be in my next update, which I promise will not be in 6 months. :-) I vow to be better, much better!